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Strategy, History, & Goals

Ends, ways, and means. Terrorist organizations are familiar with these concepts and the development of strategy too. Over the course of our history the CTC has studied and released reports and articles about terrorist goals and strategy. Browse the content below to learn more.

November 25, 2025

Burden-Sharing with Non-Traditional Counterterrorism Partners

Iselin Brady, Daniel Byman

The Best of Times, the Worst of Times: The Repressed Islamic State Affiliates

Daniel Milton

The Changing Character of Terrorism and U.S. Counterterrorism

Don Rassler, Kristina Hummel, Brian Dodwell, Ned Curry

Danger Zone: Terrorism Risk – Theory, Practice, and Evolution

Don Rassler, Nicholas Clark, Sean Morrow

November 20, 2025

Rise of the E-Militias: Designated Terrorist Groups Infest Iraq’s Digital Economy

Michael Knights

October 14, 2025

Hamas Plots in Europe: A Shift Toward External Operations?

Matthew Levitt

October 6, 2025

Inside Hamas: How It Thinks, Fights, and Governs

Magnus Ranstorp

A View from the CT Foxhole: Zohar Palti, Former Director, Policy & Political-Military Bureau, Israel’s Ministry of Defense

Assaf Moghadam, Don Rassler

September 26, 2025

Militant Violence in Jammu and Kashmir Post-Abrogation of Article 370

Animesh Roul

Uzbek Foreign Fighter Groups in the Syrian Jihad: The Evolution of KIB and KTJ from 2011 through 2025

Kathleen Collins

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